Behold... the Power of Perl.

Have you ever laid awake into the wee-hours of the night and asked yourself "Can I use Perl to integrate with STK Object Model?" First, you need more help than a simple blog post, and second, yes you can! Although C#, Matlab, VB.Net and Python get all the STK/Help Code-Snippet glory, you can use Perl with STK (and not just for TCP/IP connections). Why use Perl? Well, beyond the obvious $, @, and % (scalars, arrays, and hashes), and the sexy; line endings, Perl is simple and quick (you can write a Perl script before someone opens Visual Studio and creates a new project!). Here's a simple example...

# just a simple example of starting and controlling STK #
use Win32::OLE;